Gladstone: A Biography - Brossura

Jenkins, Roy

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ISBN 10: 0812966414 ISBN 13: 9780812966411

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2002

Riassunto

A definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest nineteenth-century politicians and statesmen describes the life and times of William Ewart Gladstone, his ideas and contributions, and his role as prime minister, founder of the Liberal party, and political orator. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“[An] enthralling biography...utterly absorbing.”
—The Atlantic Monthly

“Excellent...wry, urbane, and laced with a gentle, affectionate irony—exactly the right tone for a historical monument who really was monumental....Jenkins makes Gladstone’s life intelligible, affecting...entertaining.”
—The Boston Sunday Globe

“A question that Jenkins’s biography raises for the reader: why is it so much fun to read about Victorian politics?...An exhaustive, permanent biography, whose greatest virtue is its extraordinary worldliness. Jenkins has a bred-in-the-bone sense, almost unique among political biographers, of politics as improvisation, game, and even theatre.”
—The New Yorker

L'autore:

Roy Jenkins was the author of 18 books, including Gladstone, which won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Active in British politics for half a century, he entered the House of Commons in 1948 and subsequently served as Minister of Aviation, Home Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer; he was also the President of the European Commission and Chancellor of Oxford University. He died in 2003.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0812966414
• ISBN 13: 9780812966411
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 768